The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

April 12 (25)-April 27 (May 10), 1905

Draft Resolution on the Events in the Caucasus[1]

1.Whereas the specific social and political conditions in the
Caucasus have favoured the creation there of the most militant
organisations of our Party;

2.Whereas the revolutionary mood of the majority of the population in the
   Caucasus, both in the towns and in the villages, has reached the stage of a
   people’s uprising. against the autocracy;

3.Whereas the autocratic government has begun to send troops and artillery to
   Guria for the ruthless destruction of all the important seats of rebellion;
   and

4.Whereas a victory of the autocracy over the popular uprising in the Caucasus,
   which would be rendered easier by the non-Russian composition of the
   population, would most grievously affect the success of the uprising
   throughout Russia;—

Therefore,the Third Congress of the Russian
   Social-Democratic Labour Party, on behalf of the class-conscious
 proletariat of Russia,
sends ardent greetings to the heroic proletariat and peasantry of the Caucasus
and instructs the Central Committee and the local Party committees to take the
most energetic measures towards promulgating information on the state of affairs
in the Caucasus as widely as possible by means of pamphlets, meetings, workers’
rallies, study circle talks, etc., as well as measures towards rendering timely
support to the Caucasus by armed force.

[1]The resolution“On the Events in the
Caucasus”was first published in issue No. 1 of the newspaperProletary, May 27 (14), 1905, and in issue No. 1 of the Georgian
underground Bolshevik newspaper, official organ of the Caucasian League of the
R.S.D.L.P.,Borba Proletariata(The Struggle of the
Proletariat), July
1 (14), 1905.